If you’ve been working from home how has your internet coped?

[Internetathome]

I’m on Virgin for landline, internet and TV. My partner works in a techy field and has been able to work from home. I’m not in employment at the moment. We’ve got 2 teenagers who have IPhones, tablets and a Nintendo Switch.

While the WFH has been relatively glitch-free - other internet devices have been crap. We’ve checked our speeds on the Virgin site but it says we’re on super fast with good capacity. However all 3 of us who aren’t working have had lots of interruptions of service - not been able to log onto websites, check Instagram, zoom calls etc. It’s so intermittent, hours of it being fine then hours of it not.

How has your internet been behaving during Lockdown, especially if you or someone in the house has been working from home?

Mainly fine. We're with Virgin (can't get BT super fast where we are) but we have a different router for the Wi-Fi as the Virgin one is rubbish.

Most people have more problems with the wifi between the router and their device than the link itself.

Try a wired connection for as many devices as you can, if it's all much better, then spending the money on a proper router will do wonders.

The actual connection speed you have is rarely particularly relevant, most peoples will be fast enough - certainly if your problems are intermittent connection errors - as opposed to all the simultaneous video being blurry.